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Ciaran Carson’s Shamrock Tea

Monday, December 8th, 2008

You probably wouldn’t pick one of Northern Ireland’s best known poets, academic - and traditional music enthusiast to boot - to be the novelist to have translated the spirit of the internet into book form. In Shamrock Tea  (2001) though Ciaran Carson has, in my humble view, done exactly that - and there’s not a hint [...]

George Saunders and Style

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

I’ve yet to read any novels by George Sanders, but after  reading the following passage in an interview between Ben Marcus and Saunders, taken from meaty Believer Book of Writers Talking To Writers, I think it’s about time I did:
So, when I’m writing, I am trying to move myself, or impress myself, or prevent myself [...]